Why am I so underwhelmed by music these days? (1 Viewer)

[Goodbye]

Owen Pallett

Christ. Had to turn that shite off and put on Wings.

I am my fucking dad

 

[Goodbye]

ahhh

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[jonah]

I strongly dislike Owen Pallett too, actually quite liked him until I saw him live then wanted to commit suicide out of boredom.

I like some new stuff; Ducktails is amazing. I quite like Perfume Genius though I see myself going right off him at some point. The Wave Pictures aren't at all new but are constantly producing amazing stuff.. who else... Maps & Atlases? I guess its down to individual taste but there's loads of great stuff out there if you're willing to trawl for it. I quite like some of the Nashvillian country music myself like Catilin Rose and Tristen. Phosphorescent maybe? Anyway I like new music.

Plus there's probably never been more interesting and exciting things coming from Ireland as there is right now... I think.

 

[Jasper]

Two things to say about this really. First, when i started going out with my missus about ten years ago she was listening to way more music plus going to way more gigs and festivals than i was. Over the last few years she has next to zero interest in new music, rarely goes to gigs and is happy listening to Lyric or talk radio. She reckons that life has moved on, her priorities have changed and has no hang ups or regrets about this. Happens loads of people and there's nowt wrong with that.

Secondly, i hit a brick wall with new music (indie/metal/the usual stuff) about 5 years ago but i still had the curiosity to try to discover something that hit the spot for me so i just started listening to tons of radio (Nova, Jazz Alley and Reels to Raga on Lyric, some BBC shows as well) and downloading shit loads of recommended stuff from different genres. Some i liked, some i didn't but it did open a whole world of absolutely incredible music that i never paid attention to. I listen to a ridiculously varied amount of music (including indie/alternative) and i hear loads of jaw droppingly good tunes from different genres all the time. Variety is the key!

If you've got the time and the interest you'll definitely find stuff that'll blow you away.

 

[Goodbye]

Totally get your missus.

At home its podcasts of geeks talking about film. The thought of attending a festival fills me with dread. And gig going is just annoying for me these days what with all the fucking chatter & mobile phones. Noone shuts the fuck up and listens to the music anymore, well rarely. I pretty much end up leaving a gig disappointed almost all the time.

But for someone where music has been a HUGE part of my life since seeing Little Red Corvette on MTUSA its depressing me that its waining.

Jonah, your list of new bands makes me want to shoot myself in the face (no offense of course). Maybe I am turning into Victor Meldrew.

AND I'm turning Thumped into my very public therapy session. What the hell is wrong with me...

 

[Goodbye]

Jasper

Yeah, I'm listening to a hell of a lot more radio now too. Internet radio though. Stuff like The Frontporch, The Current, WFMU, Cinemix, 6 Music etc whereas before I'd never listen to the radio as they would never play what I wanted to hear.

 

[jonah]

That's ok no offence taken, I find myself disliking an awful lot of the music people talk about here - opinions and what not. Except Ducktails is really good, regardless.

 

[dudley]

If you've got the time and the interest you'll definitely find stuff that'll blow you away.

and thats it in a nutshell. on some other thread, ian, you mentioned only listening to music in the car these days, so it's become an accompaniment to whatever you're doing, not the focus. i bet when you were a wee young slip of a thing you'd crank up a record, turn off the lights, and just get lost in it, but when was the last time you had the opportunity to do that?

doesn't mean equally special records aren't being made, just that other stuff is getting in the way of your ability to connect with them. s'just the way o' things with jobs/kids etc...

 

[Goodbye]

I see what your saying duds and I agree to some extent. But there are other people I know who have more kids than I do that still have that (for want of a better word) "youthful" exuberance for music.

Whenever I pick up on something new these days, it last about a fortnight and then thats that. Its not deliberate, it just happens.

I have the perfect opportunity to shut off the lights and get lost in music RIGHT NOW (I'm alone with headphones on) but I've no interest in doing so. I think thats the problem. I have the opportunity, but not the desire.

But mainly, my complaint is that no new music sticks. I'm underwhelmed by it.

So I have the time, just a lack of anything (sustaining) interest to me...

 

[Goodbye]

christ i sound like a miserable fucker

 

[Jasper]

Whenever I pick up on something new these days, it last about a fortnight and then thats that. Its not deliberate, it just happens.

I have the perfect opportunity to shut off the lights and get lost in music RIGHT NOW (I'm alone with headphones on) but I've no interest in doing so. I think thats the problem. I have the opportunity, but not the desire.

But mainly, my complaint is that no new music sticks. I'm underwhelmed by it.

So I have the time, just a lack of anything (sustaining) interest to me...

You literally sound like someone who has fallen out of love, you could be talking about a relationship with someone that you've realised has no future.

 

[ann post]

is 'ex rock fan' the future tense of 'future porn star'.

i hated music for about a year. hope to do it again sometime.

 

[Goodbye]

Jasper

wow. Astute.

That is really depressing.

 

[ann post]

is 'ex rock fan' the future tense of 'future porn star'.

i hated music for about a year. hope to do it again sometime.

that was shit reply.

i was just thinking that maybe at a time music was at the forefront of what you enjoyed - both listening and making, now other more important and interesting things are at the forefront of what you enjoy. so music may not be in the front seat anymore, but you might pick it up if you saw it out hitching.

 

[shower another shower]

Stop listening to the music you've got and just dance to it. I do it in the kitchen every night.

Ye'll take off a few lbs. too!

 

[shower another shower]

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[Andy_aurel]

Maybe these aren't your music days Ian. Loads of other artforms out there. I'm not being glib.

 

[Jerry Twig]

How are you buying and listening to music these days Ian? Perhaps that´s a factor. The lost physicality of record buying I think has affected a lot of people´s connection with music.

 

[nonemoreblack]

How are you buying and listening to music these days Ian? Perhaps that´s a factor. The lost physicality of record buying I think has affected a lot of people´s connection with music.

Yeah I would definitely agree with that. I just got back into vinyl and the tactile nature of records and the fact that you usually listen to a full side without hitting 'next' makes a bit difference.

 

[Diumraid]

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me.
1 Cor 13:11